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To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jo Frederiks

If one person is unkind to an animal

it is considered to be cruelty,

but if a lot of people are unkind to animals

(especially in the name of profit)

the cruelty is condoned and will be defended

by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

Men are the devils of the earth,

and the animals are its tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhaur

If God condones what we do to animals

- then what does the Devil do?

Gary Yourofsky

Make a habit of two things: to help;

or at least to do no harm.

Hippocrates

Being vegan for me is about trying to live

a life where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,

and not to support any act of killing in the world.

We should consume in such a way that helps

to reduce the suffering of living beings.

And that way we can preserve

compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Veganism isn't just about what's on your plate.

Compassion is a lifestyle.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

How to Go Vegan

It is our hearts, not just our heads,

that demand of us that we overcome,

for them, the habits and forces

behind their systematic oppression.

That requires both our passion and

our discipline. The fate of animals

is in our hands. God grant

we are equal to the task.

Tom Regan

Success is not achieved by the impractical who

merely contemplate, but by the individuals

who face reality head-on and take

purposeful action.

Plato

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths,

we think all is lost, but it's only here

that the new and the good begins.

Leo Tolstoy

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. Education.

2. Identify Small Goals.

3. Make Room for Failure.

4. Create Small Habits.

5. Replace, NOT restrict.

6. Build Community.

The secret of change is to focus all of your

energy, not on fighting the old,

but on building the new.

Socrates

Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better, do better.

Maya Angelou

Once I learned what was happening to animals,

I couldn't not do something. Every single day

I make choices that take them into consideration.

Elaine Hendrix

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard

of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to

be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

He who has a why to live for

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If your choices are beautiful,

so too will you be.

Epictetus

I often think of alcohol as a genie in a bottle.

It promises everything but eventually

imprisons you in the bottle itself.

Erica Jong

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated

to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Marian Wright Edelman

1. Know your why. Make the connection.

2. Transition at your own pace.

3. Whole food plant-based diet.

4. Learn easy GO TO vegan meals.

5. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail (Benjamin Franklin).

6. Don't strive for perfection - it's a learning process.

7. Supplement B12 (& vitamin D in the winter).

8. Keep learning, keep growing.

9. Practice empathy and understanding.

10. Socialize & participate in the vegan community, on/off line.

11. Eat balanced meals.

12. Have fun. Explore!